Vigilance and Biblical Self Image Galatians 5:26-6:5 Key word: Vigilant

Looking back Key Verse for Galatians study: The Holy Spirit: Gal 2:16 “…we know that a person is not justified by the works of the Law but through faith in Jesus Christ…” The Holy Spirit: Enables you to overcome the flesh! Enables us to produce fruit.

Looking Ahead The Ongoing battle for balance. Vigilance and restoration. Burden bearing and other loads.

Galatians 5:26-6:5 26 Let us not become conceited, provoking one another, envying one another. 6  1 Brothers, if anyone is caught in any transgression, you who are spiritual should restore him in a spirit of gentleness. Keep watch on yourself, lest you too be tempted. 2 Bear one another's burdens, and so fulfill the law of Christ. 3 For if anyone thinks he is something, when he is nothing, he deceives himself. 4 But let each one test his own work, and then his reason to boast will be in himself alone and not in his neighbor. 5 For each will have to bear his own load.

The ongoing battle for balance Conceit vs. Envy – A Portrait of misdirection. Galatians 5:26 Self-superiority: Thinking myself better than others. Inferiority Complex: The state of seeing myself less than others. The biblical balance. John 15:5

Galatians 6:3-4 For if anyone thinks he is something, when he is nothing, he deceives himself. But let each one test his own work, and then his reason to boast will be in himself alone and not in his neighbor.

Vigilance and Restoration We are to be vigilant 1 Cor 11:28 Acts 5 – Ananias and Sapphira “caught in sin;” vs “overtaken” Restore Mercy Gentleness

Burden bearing and load carrying Burden= a load to heavy or great for one person to carry alone. Gal 6:2 “Bear one another’s burdens, and so fulfill the law of Christ.” “The Law of Christ” Luke 10:27 And he answered, “You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your strength and with all your mind, and your neighbor as yourself.”

Burden bearing and load carrying Load = your ongoing responsibilities throughout your life. 1 Timothy 5:8 But if anyone does not provide for his relatives, and especially for members of his household, he has denied the faith and is worse than an unbeliever. Jesus the Ultimate example 1 Peter 2:24 He himself bore our sins in his body on the tree, that we might die to sin and live to righteousness. By his wounds you have been healed.

Pulling it all together The Work of the Holy Spirit in our lives should produce: A balanced perspective of my life in Christ Vigilance and Restoration. Bear one another burdens, and carry your own load. Self-examination is healthy and should be an ongoing process. Galatians 6:3-4

1 Corinthians 11:23-28 For I received from the Lord what I also delivered to you, that the Lord Jesus on the night when he was betrayed took bread, 24 and when he had given thanks, he broke it, and said, “This is my body which is for you. Do this in remembrance of me.” 25 In the same way also he took the cup, after supper, saying, “This cup is the new covenant in my blood. Do this, as often as you drink it, in remembrance of me.” 26 For as often as you eat this bread and drink the cup, you proclaim the Lord's death until he comes. 27 Whoever, therefore, eats the bread or drinks the cup of the Lord in an unworthy manner will be guilty concerning the body and blood of the Lord. 28 Let a person examine himself, then, and so eat of the bread and drink of the cup.